Delaware farmers cultivate record production in 2012

Del. production yielded $1.2 billion in 2012

7:02 PM,
Feb. 20, 2014

Written by

Cori Anne Natoli
The News Journal

First State fruit, vegetable, grain and livestock farmers cultivated record breaking production in 2012, amid tepid economic times, yielding $1.2 billion in agriculture goods, according to preliminary data from the USDA Census of Agriculture, a report that began in 1840 and is conducted every five years.

The estimated $1.283 billion was up 19 percent from the last census conducted in 2007, when the figure stood at $1.083 billion.